Runaway collapse of Witten vortex loops

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/14/2/017MaRDI QIDQ3130080zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Minos Axenides, A. L. Larsen

Publication date 11 September 1997

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9604135

zbMATH Keywords

charged circular cosmic stringsworldsheet string models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05)

Abstract: We consider general properties of charged circular cosmic strings in a general family of world-sheet string models. We then specialize to a model recently proposed by Carter and Peter. This model was shown to give a good description of the features of the superconducting cosmic strings originally discovered by Witten. We derive an explicit expression for the potential determining the dynamics of the string and we present explicit expressions for the string tension and energy density as a function of string-loop radius. We also obtain explicit expressions for the wiggle and woggle speeds (speeds of transverse and longitudinal perturbations, respectively). We show that the contraction of the uniformly charged string is essentially governed by the string tension (for large loop radius) and by a {it finite} Coulomb barrier (for small loop radius). We argue for the unobstructed contraction of a uniformly charged loop over the Coulombic barrier and its eventual collapse to a charged point. The implication of such an effect to the possible formation of naked singularities, in violation of the cosmic censorship hypothesis, is finally discussed.

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